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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Do you want to Autism label to continue? |
| OrangeCloud |
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Posted: 04 Nov 2019, 6:03 pm
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Replies: 21
Views: 935
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| Maybe this is just my experience but it seems to me that social norms are collapsing and many NT's are starting to have only slightly more of an idea about what the rules are than we do. Many ideas and behaviours that would have been unthinkable 30 years ago are now mainstream. I actually think that... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ASAN view on Gene Editing |
| OrangeCloud |
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Posted: 27 Oct 2019, 6:07 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,307
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| I agree that many of the problems that Autistic people face are caused by society misunderstanding and oppressing them. I agree with ASANs stance on gene editing, because it infringes on the rights of the individual who is having their genes edited. It is being done without the person's consent and ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do Birthday's Stress Anyone Else Out? |
| OrangeCloud |
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Posted: 27 Oct 2019, 3:44 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 728
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| The fact of getting older has never really bothered me much. But I always hated the expectation of having a celebration, especially if it was me who was expected to arrange it, and I don't like the kind of forced sociability which comes with being the centre of attention because "it's my speci... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mike Pence attacks black athletes (again) |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2019, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 1,013
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| There is no evidence here that this is racially motivated, Mike Pence has not mentioned race or involvement with black lives matter. He claims that this is about their pandering to the Chinese Communist party. The idea that this is not the real reason and it is actually about race and involvement wi... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: United States could collapse within 20 years |
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Posted: 26 Oct 2019, 4:38 pm
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Replies: 12
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| It seems to me that the US military are hijacking climate change and using it to scare everyone into giving it more money and weapons. The military itself is one of the worst polluters that there is. Expanding the military and giving it more money is not going to help reduce pollution. In fact it wi... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "mind blind"? |
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Posted: 05 May 2012, 12:42 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Think I sort of know what you mean, sometimes I get in a state of mind when everything just fades into one and things seem less real and people become more like phantoms with no individuality. Although I feel quite alone, I don't really get depressed about it, this is just what happens when you can'... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: 15 yo Asperger Teen Shot Dead by Police |
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Posted: 05 May 2012, 12:25 pm
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Replies: 94
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| I would have thought that a trained police officer should be able to restrain a 15 year old with a butter knife without a gun or taser or anything. I reckon I could do it, why can't they? This all smells a bit wrong. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Adults with Aspergers Seem 'Normal' to Me |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2012, 8:03 am
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Replies: 397
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| melanieeee wrote: I have meet a few people with aspergers and I have watched numerous videos of adults with aspergers and they seem don't really seem 'abnormal' to me... It's probably just because your Autistic yourself, other people with Aspergers do seem to be a bit different to me, but I don't no... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Does anyone meet up in Birmingham U.K anymore? |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2012, 12:14 pm
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Replies: 35
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| I would also be up for meeting in Birmingham and would rather it be organized on WP than AV. The people on AV are mostly alot older than me and I don't have much in common with them and I quickly lost interest in that site shortly after I joined. There seems to be a fair ammount of interest in this,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: In my own world by default |
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Posted: 18 Feb 2012, 9:48 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,375
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| Angel_ryan wrote I had a lot of trouble with this as a child, then a little less in high school, and now I experience it way less. Exactly the same with me, the further you go back into my past, the more I struggled with this sort of thing. I can remember countless instances similar to the table ten... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: A Beautiful Mind (autistic painter Katie Miller) |
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Posted: 11 Feb 2012, 10:15 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 5,279
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| That painting is superb, I like the contrast between the outside and the inside. The outside looks bright and colourful and inviting, whereas the inside looks dark, dreary and depressing. It looks so beautiful outside but the children are sitting inside watching television in the dark looking anxiou... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: NY Times Article: "I had Asperger's Syndrome. Briefly.& |
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Posted: 11 Feb 2012, 10:03 am
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Replies: 17
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| The article just sounds like a piece of propaganda created to justify the new diagnostic procedures. Hard to say how authentic or genuine it is. He is either lying or is being used to promote an agenda. I personally think it is a fake because the understanding of AS seems to be quite poor, and it co... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Lying in your face |
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Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 3:53 pm
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Replies: 41
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| ahogday wrote: There really is no definitive line for hope. And there is no real definitive line for what research and science may accomplish in the future. Cure in this case is really a synomym for hope. There are no definitive promises in scientific research or hope; the scientific research means ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Mettallica anti cure song. |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2011, 1:05 pm
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Replies: 30
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| From my favorite metallica album, this is what I grew up on. The song does seem to be ridiculing people who need to believe in a cure even if no such thing exists. The lies tempt her and she follows Again she lets him in She must believe to fill the hollow She's been fooled again It's a bit vague th... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Lying in your face |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2011, 12:49 pm
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Replies: 41
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| I would say that motor-co-ordination skill problems are real, but in a subjective way. The problems become real when society expects that everyone should have good handwriting. My handwriting used to be pretty awful as well, it wasn't readable by anyone else except me until I was about 12. Handwriti... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Lying in your face |
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Posted: 28 Nov 2011, 6:08 am
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Replies: 41
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| aghogday wrote: No, it's not a disease, but "cure" is a simple word that the general public can understand that want children to be cured of their inability to speak, GI issues, sleeping problems, or self injurous behavior, among the other struggles associated with autism. These are the problems the... |
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